Internet Explorer Lost 11-Percent Market Share Since March

As Microsoft turns toward vomit-centric ad campaigns to push the latest version of its browser, Internet Explorer has been steadily losing market share to increased competition from Firefox, Safari, and Google's Chrome. The numbers come from Statcounter, which shows that the combined traffic from Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 has dropped 11.4-percent since March of this year.

As Microsoft turns toward vomit-centric ad campaigns to push the latest version of its browser, Internet Explorer has been steadily losing market share to increased competition from Firefox, Safari, and Google's Chrome. The numbers come from Statcounter, which shows that the combined traffic from Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 has dropped 11.4-percent since March of this year.

Microsoft's is still the dominant browser, of course. IE 7 still holds 30.1-percent of the market--though that number is down from 49.1 in March. Together IE 6, 7, and 8 still hold 54.4-percent of the market (down from 65.8-percent from March).

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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